Australia, as you know, has sought over the last 12 months or so to enhance its engagement with Europe and the European Union, and that saw last year the formalisation of an Australia-EU Partnership Framework Agreement, which sets the modern day relationship between Australia and Europe.

As far as I can see, you and Net Exchange are trying to make the quantum leap from a toy "market" which is basically a formalisation of existing procurement arrangements and tendering processes, to a genuine market open to the whole world.

In terms of the biggest influence on world history I would tend to go for Aristotle and his development of enquiry about the natural world or maybe Francis Bacon for his formalisation of the scientific method.